al-Niṣf al-thānī min juzʼ aḥad ʻashar
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Second half of section 11 in full, containing the first word of 10:26 to the final word of 11:5. This copy also contains a waqf statement and prayers to say before and after recitation.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from headpiece (f. 2v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 12 long lines; border-ruled.

Script: Naskh in black ink; fully vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome (red, blue, pink, orange, black, green, yellow, white) and gold illuminated headpiece (f. 2v). Textblock border-rules in red, gold, black, blue; page opening frame-ruled in black. Rubrications in red with gold and blue highlights. Gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings. Surah titles in red on gold background with polychrome edge decorations. Polychrome and gold medallions in the margins.

Shelfmark: MS Or 106.

Origin: No date of copy, though the donation note is dated Rajab 1284 (October-November 1867) (f. 2r). Possibly copied in Iran.

Customs stamps dated 1312 (1894-95) (f. 1r, 10v).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Arabic with a few statements in Persian.

Reddish brown leather, blind stamped with central mandorla and six pendants, four on the vertical and two on the horizontal axis, lead ruled and tooled frame. Marbled paper pastedowns.

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